I have a more fundamental problem that I would hope I could impose on you slightly to resolve. None of my prior coding experience is Web 2.0, AJAX,JavaScript, what have you, so this is very new to me. My prior experience has been server-side DOM rather than shared- or client-load.

I feel I'm missing something very basic here ... when the user clicks "Submit," I don't want the form to cause any change in the background page. Where I have an alertbox now, I plan to insert these values into a hidden text field (I saw some examples out on the LimeSurvey documentation pages). I think I'll end up wanting code like the "Back to Top" <div> on this very forum. I see that document.ready was used here rather than document.onload. I suspect document.ready is the better trigger.

Again, I feel this is pretty basic (and not within the scope of LimeSurvey support, per se), but I'm somewhat stumped after spending a few days going from knowing nothing about CSS <div>s and knowing nothing about jQuery/Javascript to where I am not.

THANK YOU for your time and effort here, it works as desired now (though on reflection and study, I'm not moving to document.ready() for timing reasons).

The support given here, and offered by LimeSurvey, is far above and beyond SurveyMonkey (who immediately told me that this couldn't be done) and SurveyGizmo (who, after waiting six days, told me that they could connect me with a developer if I had a rather significant amount of money to spend on this).

(Mods: feel free to remove the vendor names above. I don't mean to be inflammatory, but these seem to be the key players in web-based survey packages: LimeSurvey, SurveyMonkey, and SurveyGizmo.)